Re: ppolicy "check_password" needs include files not available in install

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Chris Shenton wrote:
> I'm finding the ppolicy overlay very useful for implementing our
> enterprise's password policies.  The build process is a bit of a
> nuisance tho.

> But those includes, and the files they include in turn, do not exist
> in the installed LDAP include files.  So in order to build this
> little check_password.c program I have to untar and then ./configure
> all the OpenLDAP source again.
>
> I realize that check_password.c is not an official part of OpenLDAP
> but would it be possible to put the include files that overlays like
> this need into the installed locations so overlays wouldn't need to
> get and config OpenLDAP all over again?

If you're building from source you're welcome to edit the Makefiles and 
install whatever files you want wherever you want. If you're using a binary 
distribution of OpenLDAP, contact whoever assembled the package for you. 
OpenLDAP only distributes source code, so this really isn't something for us 
to address.

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